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The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses already worked well as a head-mounted camera and pair of open-ear headphones, but now Meta is updating the glasses with access to live AI without the need for a wake word, live translation between several different languages, and access to Shazam for identifying music. Meta first demoed most of these features at Meta Connect 2024 in September. Live AI lets you start a live session with Meta AI that gives the assistant access to whatever youre seeing and lets you ask questions without having to say Hey Meta. If you need your hands-free to cook or fix something, Live AI is supposed to keep your smart glasses useful even if you need to concentrate on whatever youre doing. Live translation lets your smart glasses translate between English and either French, Italian, or Spanish. If live translation is enabled and someone speaks to you in one of the selected languages, youll hear whatever theyre saying in English through the smart glasses speakers or as a typed transcript in the Meta View app. Youll have to download specific models to translate between each language, and live translation needs to be enabled before itll actually act as an interpreter, but it does seem more natural than holding out your phone to translate something. With Shazam integration, your Meta smart glasses will also be able to identify whatever song you hear playing around you. A simple Meta, what is this song will get the smart glasses' microphones to figure out whatever youre listening to, just like using Shazam on your smartphone. All three updates baby-step the wearable towards Metas end goal of a true pair of augmented reality glasses that can replace your smartphone, an idea its experimental Orion hardware is a real-life preview of. Pairing AI and either VR and AR seems to be an idea multiple tech giants are circling, too. Googles newest XR platform, Android XR, is built around the idea that a generative AI like Gemini could be the glue that makes VR or AR compelling. Were still years away from any company being willing to actually alter your field of view with holographic images, but in the meantime smart glasses seem like a moderately useful stopgap. All Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses owners will be able to enjoy Shazam integration as part of Metas v11 update. For live translation and live AI, youll need to be a part of Metas Early Access Program, which you can join right now at the companys website.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-is-rolling-out-live-ai-and-shazam-integration-to-its-smart-glasses-192602898.html?src=rss
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If you've been waiting patiently to try ChatGPT Search, you won't have to wait much longer if you're a free user. After rolling out to paid subscribers this fall, OpenAI announced Monday it would make the tool available to everyone, no Plus or Pro membership necessary, "over the coming months." At that point, all you need before you can start using ChatGPT Search is an OpenAI account. Once you're logged in, and if your query calls for it, ChatGPT will automatically search the web for the latest information to answer your question. You can also force it to search the web, thanks to a new icon located right in the prompt bar. OpenAI has also added the option to make ChatGPT Search your browser's default search engine. OpenAI announced the expanded availability during its most recent "12 Days of OpenAI" livestream. In previous live streams, the company announced the general availability of Sora and ChatGPT Pro, a new $200 subscription for its chatbot. With four more days to go, it's hard to see the company topping that announcement, but at this point, OpenAI likely has a surprise or two up its sleeve. Developing...This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/chatgpt-is-getting-ready-to-roll-its-search-tool-out-to-everyone-184442971.html?src=rss
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In perhaps the least surprising news of the past six weeks, President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to roll back President Bidens electric vehicle and emissions policies. Reuters reports that the incoming presidents transition team has recommended cutting off support for EVs and charging stations while boosting measures to block cars, components and battery materials from China. The transition teams other reported plans include new tariffs on all battery materials globally, boosting US production of battery materials and negotiations with allies for exemptions. Theyre also said to plan on taking money allocated for building charging stations and making EVs more affordable and redirecting them to sourcing batteries and their required minerals from places other than China. In addition, they reportedly want to axe the Biden administrations $7,500 tax credit for consumer EV purchases. The plans would let automakers produce more gas-powered vehicles by reversing emissions and fuel economy standards, pushing them back to 2019 levels. Reuters says that would lead to around 25 percent more emissions per vehicle mile than the current limits. It would also lower the average car fuel economy by about 15 percent. Climate scientists have stressed the importance of transitioning from gas-powered cars to EVs in reducing carbon emissions and fending off the most ravaging scenarios for the planet. Greenhouse gases, including those from vehicle emissions, build up in the atmosphere and warm the climate. That leads to a cascade of effects in the atmosphere, on land and in oceans some of which were already seeing. As for tariffs, economists have said Trumps plans would likely spur multiple trade wars as countries retaliate with tariffs on American goods, disrupt supply chains and pierce the heart of Americas post-World War II alliances. If we go down the tariff war path, were going down a very dark path for the economy, Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moodys Analytics, told The New York Times in October. The Biden administration has championed climate legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, which allocated $369 billion for green initiatives, and EPA rules that require automakers to ramp up EV sales. Meanwhile, Trump has called climate change a hoax. In May, he reportedly told a group of oil executives that he would immediately reverse dozens of Bidens environmental rules while blocking new ones from being enacted. His asking price for such deregulation was that they raise $1 billion for his campaign. (Thanks, Citizens United!) So, while the reports about his transition teams plans are still a gut punch to those who care about leaving the planet in a habitable state for future generations (and slowing the effects were already seeing), they arent exactly shocking to anyone paying attention.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/trump-reportedly-plans-to-reverse-bidens-ev-policies-182206662.html?src=rss
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